Spray Paint on the Prairie

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Twiddly Finger Conqueror and other randomness

In case of emergency, always remind yourself that alligators and crocodiles are mini-dinosaurs.

Anxiety is like the villain from IT, whatever one fears the most will get amplified if one doesn't clear the mind and focus on the tangible, the physical sensation of the body, objectively, like a scientist.

Mystikal, e-40, Bizzy Bone, Pharoahe Monch - "F**k yo beat!" - Good song idea.

Conquerors, those of the negative ilk, all possess twiddly little fingers. If not in actual demeanor (like stubborn Presidential candidates helming the fries), but also in mentality. Imagine if all educational media depicted conquerors with twiddly little fingers? How would the human mind react?

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Tanzania

From this video I get the sense that the pace of development is the extreme edge of rapid and the extreme edge of slow.

Development patterns in many African cities look surprisingly similar to American cities. The land usage is mixed between areas of high density housing, low density housing, single family homes, multi family homes, high rises, auto-oriented boulevards, pedestrian oriented commercial streets, auto-oriented businesses, all in various states of cohesion or non-cohesion. This is mad different from much of what you will find around the World, where cities have endless neighborhoods consisting of typical high to super high population density. High density is typical for big cities in most of the World, except America. Interesting to see similarities from a place so different.